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Subpar Executive Leadership/Rogue Consultant - Anonymous employee OptionsCity Software Employee Review

2.0
Jun 12, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fun, interesting, eclectic group of people, providing for engaging after-work social activities. Free daily lunches (and Monday breakfast) provided by the company. Fully stocked kitchen, and Happy Hour Fridays after market close.

Cons

Weak executive leadership. De facto rule by one long-time consultant who exhibits abysmal interpersonal skills and routinely alienates coworkers, vendors, and business partners alike. As a result, there is high turnover rate for such a small company.

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OptionsCity Software Response
10y
First, I would to apologize for my delayed response. Second, I want to thank you for taking the time to write this review. You are right in stating that we have a great group of people making up the OptionsCity family and I am really sorry that your experience with us was not more positive and that you are not part of that team anymore. As a company we are constantly trying to improve. This applies to our products, to our customer support and to our executive team. When the three of us started the company 10 years ago, we were aware that we have the technical skills to build trading software, but we may have lacked in other areas. In the meantime we have built an executive team that I am extremely proud of and that encompasses tens of years of experience and, more importantly, great results and contributions in the financial industry. Our results, products, growth and industry recognition speak to that and to the hard work and dedication that every single person at OptionsCity displays. I would love to discuss this further. Feel free to email me at victor@optionscity.com, or if more comfortable, please reach out to Human Resources at hr@optionscity.com.

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5.0
Aug 26, 2016
Quantitave analysis
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I've been to couple of different places as for internships and this experience was by far the best one. One can improve his career very fast by working here far from pressures and stresses thanks to their experienced and friendly managers - Super friendly culture where everyone wants to help each other. - Organized training/on boarding procedure - Continuous new ideas for cherishing employees and providing them with some extra rewards. - Fully equipped kitchen with all the snacks you can think of and the convenience of free lunch being delivered to your desk everyday. - Fridays fun activities.

Cons

Honestly, there is not a thing I can think of as a con!

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OptionsCity Software Response
9y
Thank you for writing a review on your recent internship experience. We are not a big organization and, therefore, do not have an extensive internship program. However, as you are attesting, when we do have students joining us for the summer, we take them through an intense on-boarding and training process and want to make sure they accomplish a number of goals, some of which are: - Gain in-depth knowledge of how the organization works. - Gain an advanced-level expertise in regards to Options pricing and modelling and risk. - Gain advanced-level expertise in the OptionsCity platforms. - Gain expert level expertise in Freeway and other OptionsCity API’s. - Expand Java knowledge in areas of multi-threaded programming and design patterns. - Come up and implement at least of one trading algorithm as a Metro Widget to be hosted on the CityStore (citystore.optionscity.com). - Complete a company and intern relevant capstone project. - Present the capstone project in front of a company wide audience. Thanks, Victor
4.0
Aug 29, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Laid back atmosphere 2. Friendly environment 3. 18 PTO days to start and add another 1 every year 4. Free lunch through Seamless everyday 5. Free breakfast on Monday's 6. YouEarnedIt employee recognition program 7. Several company outings throughout the year 8. Quarterly company meetings on company growth, goals, and accomplishments 9. You can wear jeans! 10. Salary compensation is fair to generous 11. 12 work from home days 12. 401K 13. Across the street from Union Station! 14. Management is very approachable 15. Free gym membership to the LIfeStart gym in basement of building (includes free classes). 16. Blue Cross insurance, Guardian Dental 17. Kitchen is always stocked with snacks from fruit and raw veggies to peanuts and granola bars. Free coffee, free soda, free water, free beer on Fridays (at 3pm)! 18. This is really a great and fun place to work :-)

Cons

1. Workday starts at 7:30 am and ends at 4:30pm with one hour lunch. All based on the honor system (pro). 2. Heavy male dominant company (is that a con? well if that bothers you yes, if not it neither a pro nor con). 3. I really can't think of any cons.

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OptionsCity Software Response
9y
Thank you for your review and for painting a very comprehensive picture of working with OptionsCity. I am glad you included some of the recent developments like the move to our new Chicago office at Adams and Wacker and the YouEarnedIt Employee Recognition Program. One aspect of the benefits package that we are excited about is the 3-month fully-paid Sabbatical program after 8 years of service. Thanks, Victor
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